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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] x86/entry: Clear extra registers beyond syscall arguments for 64bit kernels
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>>> At entry userspace may have populated the extra registers outside the
>>> syscall calling convention with values that could be useful in a
>>> speculative execution attack. Clear them to minimize the kernel's attack
>>> surface. Note, this only clears the extra registers and not the unused
>>> registers for syscalls less than 6 arguments since those registers are
>>> likely to be clobbered well before their values could be put to use
>>> under speculation.
>>>
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
>>> Cc: x86@kernel.org
>>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
>>> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>>> Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>>> ---
>>> arch/x86/entry/calling.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 1 +
>>> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
>>> index 3f48f695d5e6..daee2d19e73d 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/calling.h
>>> @@ -147,6 +147,23 @@ For 32-bit we have the following conventions - kernel is built with
>>> UNWIND_HINT_REGS offset=\offset
>>> .endm
>>>
>>> + /*
>>> + * Sanitize extra registers of values that a speculation attack
>>> + * might want to exploit. In the CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y case,
>>> + * the expectation is that %ebp will be clobbered before it
>>> + * could be used.
>>> + */
>>> + .macro CLEAR_EXTRA_REGS_NOSPEC
>>> + xorq %r15, %r15
>>> + xorq %r14, %r14
>>> + xorq %r13, %r13
>>> + xorq %r12, %r12
>>> + xorl %ebx, %ebx
>>> +#ifndef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
>>> + xorl %ebp, %ebp
>>> +#endif
>>> + .endm
>>> +
>>
>> Can we make the clears only happen if we have CONFIG_RETPOLINE? Or is
>> there maybe some reason why we want this even without retpolines on?
>
> We have the other Spectre variant1 mitigations on by default. I'm not
> opposed to adding a config to turn them all off, but I think we should
> be consistent either way, and I don't think CONFIG_RETPOLINE is the
> right config to gate those.

Fair enough.

>
>>> .macro POP_EXTRA_REGS
>>> popq %r15
>>> popq %r14
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>>> index c752abe89d80..46260e951da6 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>>> @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ GLOBAL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe)
>>> TRACE_IRQS_OFF
>>>
>>> /* IRQs are off. */
>>> + CLEAR_EXTRA_REGS_NOSPEC
>>
>> Please put the clears before TRACE_IRQS_OFF to protect users that use tracing.
>
> Ok.

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